Die Kleinbürgerhochzeit - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Die Kleinbürgerhochzeit
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The groom
In this early work, Bertolt Brecht humorously describes how a wedding celebration gets completely out of control - and reveals himself to be an admirer of Karl Valentin.
A small party squeezes together at the narrow table on chairs that the groom made himself. The father of the bride is annoying, the bride is pregnant, the groom is jealous and the relatives are an imposition. You drink a lot, talk past each other without hesitation and finally attack each other in an argument. The most beautiful day in the bride and groom’s life? The animosity is overflowing, the furniture is going to the dogs, the reputation is in tatters. The beginning of a marriage that no one could wish for.
Written by Brecht at the age of 21, this one-act play is a nasty, highly entertaining comedy full of clever wordplay. In the style of comedy from the early days of the film, the apparent idyll of the lower middle class is presented. The wedding turns into a farce in which not only the furniture but also the ideal world of the bourgeoisie is destroyed.
Subject to change.
The groom
In this early work, Bertolt Brecht humorously describes how a wedding celebration gets completely out of control - and reveals himself to be an admirer of Karl Valentin.
A small party squeezes together at the narrow table on chairs that the groom made himself. The father of the bride is annoying, the bride is pregnant, the groom is jealous and the relatives are an imposition. You drink a lot, talk past each other without hesitation and finally attack each other in an argument. The most beautiful day in the bride and groom’s life? The animosity is overflowing, the furniture is going to the dogs, the reputation is in tatters. The beginning of a marriage that no one could wish for.
Written by Brecht at the age of 21, this one-act play is a nasty, highly entertaining comedy full of clever wordplay. In the style of comedy from the early days of the film, the apparent idyll of the lower middle class is presented. The wedding turns into a farce in which not only the furniture but also the ideal world of the bourgeoisie is destroyed.
Subject to change.